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CHAPTER 10
On the day of the Walton Regatta of 1 910 I went in a punt with some friends and we happened to pull up a little way from another punt where the occupants surprisingly burst into song. They were 'buskers' recently returned from some seaside town at which they had been performing in a local hall, or perhaps on the beach. Anyhow, their work was obviously very good and it was suggested that I might find them exactly suitable for further productions for the 'Vivaphone,' then in the heyday of its popularity. I took the hint and got them to come round and see me. Their names were Hay Plumb, a jolly young fellow beginning to show incipient rotundity, which is supposed to be but isn't always, a sign of good living, Jack Hulcup and his wife, Claire, afterwards Claire Pridelle, who were both much too slight to imply any such suspicion.
They proved to be a good acquisition both for acting and production of 'Vivaphone' subjects and for other things as well. For though they did not set our near-by Thames on fire, their work was sound and good as far as it went and they were decent and friendly people, several cuts above some of those we had been scratching from the boards of the smaller theatres. Hay Plumb in particular was a very useful man and he soon came to take important parts before the camera and afterwards beside it.
In the autumn of that year practically our whole company migrated to Lulworth Cove, armed with a number of suitable scripts and a firm determination to make as many good small films
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